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Not sure where you are going with this. In the Bible stories Jesus is divine. He has a special relationship with God and god-like powers like healing the sick, raising the dead, turning water to wine, etc. The Biblical foundation for the trinity (...
You can always just ask them to leave. If they keep coming by you can even put up a sign. I find door-to-door proseltyzers to be fun to mess with. Remember that they came uninvited so you have no obligation to be polite to them.
Protein is not a problem on vegan diets. Unless you try to live on a diet of nothing but apples and bananas nearly any diet that supplies sufficient calories also has plenty of protein. All plant foods have some protein and legumes (beans, peas, lent...
Note this question asks the number of pennies not the number of cents. Pennies are coins worth 1/100 of a dollar while a cent is 1/100 of a dollar.. $12,678.09 would need 4 pennies regardless of how it is denominated. Without the nickel it would req...
It took me a moment to even understand what you were asking. At first I thought you were asking about petitions by the activist group PETA. I assume you mean pedophiles. In my area a news radio station used to list what neighborhoods sexual offend...
None for me, I enjoy sexual reproduction.
Is the conflict in Afganistan a war? Congress never declared war. Now that we toss the word war around it doesn't mean much. We have had wars on poverty and drugs as well as terrorism. How well has the wars on poverty and drugs been going lately? ...
That is when someone is guilty of the same thing they are accusing others of.
You got a few years. I changed my mind several times. Your best bet is to try to do well in all your classes so you will have the most choices in the future.
I've heard that too but I don't believe it. I went vegan for 6 months then went back to being a lacto-ovo vegetarian without problem. Seeing how much better I felt avoiding dairy made me continue to avoid it but when I occasional eat it it doesn't ma...
You are not for free speak unless you are willing to defend it for even those who you strongly disagree with. Voltaire famously said, I disagree with what you said but would fight to the death for your right to say it. No right is absolute; with free...
Can anyone get a job in Michigan?
It helps if you are a large corporation or bank.
I have to point out that "God helps those who help themselves" appears nowhere in the Bible or any other tome. In fact it was probably first said by Benjamin Franklin who wasn't even a Christian. The Bible actually says the opposite. It says that ...
In the book of Genesis the story of Onan is often mentioned as a prohibition on masturbation. However, it is unclear what Onan's sin of "spilling his seed" was. Some interpret it as mastrubation, others think it means coitus interrruptus, some say it...
When I tried to think objectively about the existence of God it just didn't make sense to me. Later I considered the position of Pascal's wager which is basically a cost benefit analysis of believing in God. The problem I had with Pascal's wager is...
What is more American than a Ford F150 pickup truck? Today your F150 might be built in Canada or Mexico as well as the US. Technically it is American if you mean from North America. At the same time a Mazda Toyota or Honda might be made in the US. ...
Too much of anything is bad for you. A good diet supplies plenty of protein with no need for supplementation.
There are people who can only feel better about themselves when they tear other people down. They say that stick and stones can break your bones but names can never hurt you; of course now we know how damaging verbal abuse can be. Some kids have been...
WD40 has some oil in it but it is a water dispersant. It should be better than baby oil. I've been using White Lightening lately on my bike chain. The chain stays pretty clean but the lube doesn't last long. I guess any lube stickly enough to stay ...
No, baby oil is not a good lube for skateboard bearings. People trying to get every last bit of speed sometimes use light oils but sewing machine oil is better than baby oil. If you use a light oil you will probably need to relube every day but you w...
From a consciousness point of view I think dead is dead. Since we continue to be part of a cycle of life there is at least a symbolic reincarnation. We do not come back but part of us does live on in more ways than one.
Both are polemic. Not sure what you mean by "best talking head." What is your criteria for being best?
It seems like my entire lifetime politics have been getting more and more polarized. Several times I have thought that politics could sink no longer only to be proven wrong. The emotion I most often feel for participants at tea parties is pity. Sp...
I think something will pass before Dec 31. Whether it will be any good or not remains to be seen.
jodyd, I still think that urine was more useful for lavage than as an antiseptic. Simply having a sterile liquid to rinse out wounds was handy. A high school teacher of mine was a medic in WWII and noted that they were told to wizz in soldiers eyes ...
Have you tried beta blockers? I know a number of musicians who take these so they will be able to perform when nervous. Your doctor should be willing to prescribe these unless you have a counterindication.
danigir20, your diatribe was intentionally provocative. You should not be surprised when you provoke people to attack you.
To me the quintesential phrase of the 60's was: Make love not war. Other possibilities for your sign: Don't trust anyone over 30. Flower Power. Reality is for people who can't handle drugs. Tune in, Turn on, drop out.
Been working out pretty well so far. My IRAs and 401(k) have recovered a great deal with the DJIA going from around 8,000 when he entered office to about 10,000 today. He has restored a great deal of good-will, prestige, and credibility to the US in ...
I haven't ridden all of them so I can only say what I like. My favorite coaster is Superman Krypton Coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio. It isn't the biggest or fastest coaster but they really laid it out well so the excitement is co...
Do you mean Confucianism? Assuming this is what you mean than it doesn't really have gods. Ancestor worship is part of Confucianism but it could be argued that this was already practiced in China before Confucius so he was only following the existi...
I believe dead is dead. Even with this viewpoint there is no rational reason to fear death. Death is the end of consciousness. No pleasure and no pain. I believe Epicurius said it best, Where death is I am not, where I am death is not. We have a n...
joyd, urine is not antiseptic. In healthy animals it is aseptic. Aseptic means that it containss no germs while antiseptic refers to a substance that kills germs. Urine contains lots of things that bacteria will grow quickly but when it leaves the b...
There are many paradoxes in religion. Some believers never notice them, some say that God is inscrutable and leave it at that, some spend a great deak of time trying to reconcile them. You are going off in an interesting tangent but you probably wo...
I don't believe in God. I don't believe in miracles. I don't feel empty without imaginary playmates.
*** I also still believe that Jesus is the son of God and that he died on the Cross for our sins and rose again, I just feel differently about it. You still sound like a Christian to me. You may disagree on certain points with the religion you were b...
obe189, Nothing in science is considered absolute. Newton's laws worked for a long time but when Einstein discovered they were insufficient our view of reality changed. The fact that scientists do not claim to have absolute knowledge allows them to c...
It should still be under waranty than. Apple should fix it for you.
My mom became an atheist after going to college and taking courses in world history and logic. She no longer saw Christianity as unique among all the religions that came before or since and she was able to see the fallacies upon which her own belief s...
Sounds like the battery no longer holds a full charge. If it is still under warranty than Apple should cover installing a new battery. Otherwise the repair is to have a new battery installed. There are places that install batteries cheaper than ...
Soft Cop is what we call a Trojan horse. It is a program that says it will do something useful but is actually something bad. There are instructions on the net for removing it I never ran into Soft Cop but one time my computer was infected with Sp...
People decorate temples don't they? There is a passage in Leviticus that forbids tattoos. Some would argue that in context this was specific to the people and culture of the time since then tattoos were associated with Pagan rituals. There are lot...
I just realized that you are asking about a marine aquarium. I've only had freshwater aquariums so I have no experience with saltwater fish.
I am against any form of economic ideology. I am for what works. In situations where laissez faire capitalism works I'm fine with that. When regulation is needed I'm ok with that and I'm even ok with nationalizing certain sectors when that it the be...
littlevivaldi, where are your "million evidences that God is real"? If you are going to say that atheists ignore volumes of evidence you should present an example.
Good first aquarium fish are zebra danios and tiger barbs. These are cheap and attractive fish that are fairly hardy. If you want a fish that is even lower maintenance try a betta. Bettas are air breathers so they don't require aeration and you on...
Right handedness is the norm but a number of factors help determine handedness. There is a gene that babygirl1220 mentions that increases the odds of being left handed however it isn't a recessive genes like the one that gives us blue eyes; having one...
Most of the places where I swim kids go with parents to the locker room of the parent's gender. Nobody gets too worked up if a 5 year old sees someone of the opposite gender undressed, at least not as worked up as they would with an adult. It seems r...
I look for intensity. Whether it is the intensity of hard driving bebop, complex avant garde, romantic era classical music, or heavy metal the thing I enjoy in all genre of music in intensity. I like music that allows me to vicariously feel the raw e...